One vote against reserve seating. Its annoying when something isn’t brand new. Its one step away from paying for better seats which will raise the cost even more.

That graph mentions savings, but it doesn’t show debt and source of debt. I’d be very curious to see how things such as college debt affect savings. I’m personally SMACK in the middle of millennials and Gen X (35), what I paid to go to college was substantially less than what my wife’s brother (only a few years…

So I actually stopped going to the movies near me because they replaced the seating, they wanted to force me to pick a seat like I’m at a sporting event, I’m not OK with this. This has become an annoying trend in my area. Ticket prices don’t annoy me that much simply because I don’t go to the movies much anymore. I…

I’ve got pretty much every console dating back to the Dreamcast (3 of them) and the PSX. (minus the N64 and sold my Gamecube). What have I done with old consoles? First I’ve setup “stations”, I grew up in the arcade era, so I’ve made essentially non-cabinet arcade setups throughout my house, for instance I have a DDR…

I so agree with this, but have a ... I guess personal... ‘stumble’ with it. The donkey in the room is the current tax reform, I literally just asked on my facebook yesterday something along the lines of should I read it - news sources are typically biased in some direction, so you need to digest it yourself to make…

That “How Sway”...I said it at the exact same time. Damn. I just want folks who have been locked up for selling weed let go....hell I almost feel they should be given a tax break or something too.

...eh..

yep yep yep, its almost always an ownership ‘group’. Even if it’s headed by a single individual, there are usually other people who put money up. One of the basic rules of business is to spend other people’s money, not yours.

The most practical best buy this year for me was my cast iron skillet.

eh...it depends 900% on what you do for living. There are ways around a lot of what we think FB boxes us into, it is somewhat a skeleton key to things on the internet, but there are other keys if you are prepared to have multiple equipped. So blowing by the access part which I do agree with you, as Beth pointed out,…

That’s not what I’m saying. I’m not saying “spend the cash instead”. I’m saying that it still isn’t a great thing to ‘carry’. Just because it doesn’t cost you money, doesn’t make it a great practice. I do it for most of my non-disposable/perishable spending, everything from Best Buy for instance, we will wait until we…

I get on my wife about that thinking at times. It can be simple things, every year we ARGUE about wrapping paper. silly, yes. She’ll go to the dollar store and buy up several rolls...I hate the stuff from the dollar Store, she thinks I’m being a snob or a jerk about it, but no...you literally get less paper per ‘cent’…

And as I mentioned elsewhere - it depends on situation. If you aren’t going to be able to stay at the house long enough to actually build equity in it, what’s the point? I was going to buy a house with a couple friends in like 06. the idea was as above, renting is throwing money away. Within two years one of the…

Agreed. It’s really about situation IMO. If you are buying a house, it shouldn’t be “because I can”, it should be “because I should”, “because it makes sense”, not “because I want it”. And in that same vein you need to make sure that you aren’t getting more than you need. When we were house hunting, my financial goal…

There is typically truth in that, but their are also significant caveats to it as well. Why are you saving money? Is this just for retirement, or for investing? Where are you in life? If you are in your early to mid 20s, what are the chances you’ll live in the house long enough to chew through the interest and…

That’s something that I’ve taken to heart over the past few years of trying to break out of the 8-5 cycle and do what I actually enjoy. I used to buy tons of shoes, I wear size 17/18, but I have over 60 pairs of shoes, but the year before last year, I bought only (2) pair, and this calendar year I bought (1) pair.…

And this isn’t about being or getting “rich”. This is about saving money, this is about retiring, and “setting yourself up” to be rich. You will NOT ‘be’ rich by wasting money frivolously unless you are super super lucky and hit on something. You want to get rich, then you will have to spend money in some shape or…

This is my most guilty thing, I do music and all my purchases of are the 48 months - no interest variety. Whenever my wife and I purchase something from Best Buy, its of the pay by x date - no interest variety. I recently bought some shoes from Eastbay, using Paypal, where if it cost more than $99 I have 6 months to…

This is a fun one. Every successful ‘self-made’ ‘rich’ person I’ve gotten information from and successful retirey, boils it down to this...

Save your money as much as possible. Sacrifice some of the immediate gains. Life is long, plan long.

I’ve been going through the quarter life thing. I’m wary a few things here though. “Not trying” for happiness and letting it “fall in your hand” is completely centered around what defines your happiness. If your job is driving you away from happiness, then you do need to “work” your way away from it. The whole…